Obama likely to defy media pleas for Chelsea Manning pardon

U.S. President Barack Obama pauses for translation during remarks to reporters after meeting with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S. June 7, 2016. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)

After a suicide attempt in July, Chelsea Manning, a 25-year-old transgender Army private responsible for the largest data leak in U.S. military history, tweeted from her cell at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas to let the world know that she was happy to be alive. By mid-October, around the start of her fourth year in a 35-year…